Socialist MEP calls for new post-pandemic recovery plan

Istvan Ujhelyi, MEP of the opposition Socialists, has said the government should prepare a new plan to access the European Union's post-pandemic economic recovery funds. In a statement sent to MTI on Thursday, Ujhelyi noted that the European Commission had not granted its approval to the government's earlier plan, adding that "neither the document's content nor its passage in lack of broad consultations met [the commission's] criteria". He also added that the EU's reservations concerning the rule of law in Hungary had also contributed to the EC's decision to withhold Hungary's recovery funding.